1 9 6 9 – 1 9 7 1 (UK/Germany) 52 x 50 minute episodes Crime-novelist Paul Temple (Francis Matthews) solved mysteries with the help of…
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1 9 5 0 – 1 9 6 1 (USA) Ventriloquist Paul Winchell built his dummy, Jerry Mahoney, when he was a teenager, and the two…
1 9 7 8 – 1 9 7 9 (UK) 10 x 30 minute episodes Following the success of Pauline’s Quirkes (1976), Thames Television gave the…
1 9 7 6 (UK) Following the success of You Must Be Joking, Thames Television children’s producer Roger Price gave Pauline Quirke the starring role in…
1 9 6 7 – 1 9 6 8 (Netherlands) 40 x 10 minute episodes This ITV kiddies show featured a good-natured wood gnome called Paulus…
2 0 0 0 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes Set in an underground car park, this sitcom revolved largely around the banter between crotchety…
1 9 9 9 (USA) 3 (9) x 30 minute episodes After two failed attempts to adapt the classic British comedy series Fawlty Towers for American television…
1 9 8 8 (UK) 13 x 10 minute episodes This BBC series from Trevor Bond featured moustachioed old-school village bobby PC Bob Pinkerton who lived…
1 9 8 9 (USA) 12 x 60 minute episodes TV’s former Bionic Woman Lindsay Wagner played Rebecca Cafferty, the new Managing Director of the Los Angeles…
1 9 9 3 – 2 0 0 2 (UK) 152 x 50 minute episodes Peak Practice was a medicinal cocktail of Casualty, Medics, Dr Finlay’s…
1 9 7 3 (UK) 4 x 50 minute episodes This BBC2 series, written by Hugh Whitemore, featured four plays about four sisters – Julia, Lottie,…
1 9 9 6 – 1 9 9 7 (USA) 22 x 30 minute episodes Pearl Caraldo (Rhea Perlman) is the widow of a longshoreman. After…
1 9 7 8 (USA) 3 x 120 minute episodes The film Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) cost $25 million to make. Not surprisingly, some of the footage ended…
1 9 7 2 – 1 9 8 6 (UK) This weekday magazine programme from the BBC was introduced in 1972 to compete with ITV’s…
1 9 7 1 – 1 9 7 2 (USA) 16 x 30 minute episodes This ill-conceived CBS spin-off from The Flintstones was produced by Hanna-Barbera…
1 9 5 9 (USA) 14 x 30 minute episodes Torey Peck (Patty McCormack) is a very pretty but mischievous 12-year-old girl who lives in a small…
1 9 8 6 – 1 9 9 1 (USA) This half-hour CBS-TV Saturday morning live-action ‘children’s show’ was enormously popular with children and adults alike…
2 0 0 3 – 2 0 1 5 (UK) 54 x 25 minute episodes Mark Corrigan (David Mitchell) and Jeremy Usborne (Robert Webb) are friends…
1 9 6 9 (UK) 4 x 24 minute episodes This four-part black & white BBC drama series for children was a follow-up to the 1968…
1 9 6 0 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes Set in 1960 in Paris, the BBC production team actually ventured no further than Chelsea for…